From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishUSSR, the/ˌjuː es es ˈɑː$-ˈɑːr/→seeSoviet Union, the Pictures of the day What are these? Click on the pictures to check. 我们重视您的隐私 我們及我們的764合作夥伴會在您的裝置上儲存和存取個人資料,例如瀏覽資料或唯一識別碼。選...
No such restriction applies in Southern vernacular speech, whererightcan be used to intensify the meaning of many adjectives and adverbs, as inHe's right niceorYou talk right fast.This broader use ofrightis attested as far back as the 1400s and is found in the works of Shakespeare and ...
Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook usnea Thesaurus Medical Wikipedia us·ne·a (ŭs′nē-ə, ŭz′-) n. Any of various widely distributed lichens of the genusUsnea,characterized by a pendulous, usually branched thallus, often growing on trees. ...
In France classicism developed closely with the baroque style; elements of both styles were interwoven in the works of F. Girardon and A. Coysevox. The principles of classicism, given new meaning in the age of the Enlightenment, played an important role in the development of Western European...
In the mature socialist society of the USSR, the working people have not merely been given broad access to aesthetic values but have also participated directly in their creation. Aesthetic education is systematically planned; it is linked to the moral and ideological development of the individual an...
Nonetheless, this distinctive language is very expressive. It presents well all the nuances of Hegel's thought.T. I. OizerrmanThe USSR Academy of SciencesSoviet Studies in Philosophy
5)rid the earth of his shadow and liberated its peoples from his yoke: Here both "shadow" and "yoke" are used metaphorically, the former meaning the very strong power or influence (of Hitler) and the latter meaning...
mother protecting her infant-child presented by Nagasaki’s twinned Dutch City of Middelburg situated at the mouth of the River Scheldt, named The Protection of Our Future, and this strange plant-style sculpture which had no inscription at all thus giving no clue to its meaning or its donors....
an annual Spring rite during the festival of Toxcatl (variously meaning ‘smoke’ & ‘drought’), priests select a young man, idealized for both his physical beauty & artistic talent, to ixiptlatli or impersonate the powerful deity Texcatlipoca (‘Smoking Mirror’) in a show of veneration....
yet this is less a result of political action as it is of religion; the Chinese Christian population equates to about one percent of the country’s 1.4 billion inhabitants, meaning that few recognise the festival’s religious significance. This is ever more true in the more remote, western ...